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UEFA champions league semi-final draw (See Result)

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6 years ago

April 13, 2018

The draw for the UEFA Champions League semi-final has been concluded as teams involved now know their opponent on the road to Kyiv.
Semi-final draw

Bayern München (GER) v Real Madrid (ESP, holders) – 25 April & 1 May

Liverpool (ENG) v Roma (ITA) – 24 April & 2 May

Final draw

For administrative reasons, a draw was also made to determine the ‘home’ team at NSC Olimpiyskiy, Kyiv on 26 May.
Bayern München/Real Madrid v Liverpool/Roma

Draw facts

Having become the first side to win back-to-back titles in the UEFA Champions League era last season, Real Madrid want to be the first club since Bayern (1974–76) to claim three successive European Cups. Ajax also won three in a row between 1971 and 1973, while Madrid hold the all-time record having won the first five finals.

Bayern v Real Madrid will meet for the 25th and 26th time in Europe, making it the most-played UEFA competition tie.

Liverpool will move ahead of Bayern and Barcelona to six European Cup titles with victory in Kyiv. Only AC Milan (7) and Real Madrid (12) have managed more.

Jupp Heynckes has a 100% record of reaching UEFA Champions League finals. In his three previous campaigns he triumphed with Real Madrid (1997/98) and Bayern (2012/13), also finishing runner-up with the Bavarians in 2011/12.
Roma aim to become the 23rd team to lift the European Cup, and the fourth from Italy.

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PHOTOS: FG welcomes Super Eagles with breakfast

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2 months ago

February 13, 2024

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The Super Eagles have arrived in the Federal Capital Territory after their second-place finish at the just concluded African Cup of Nations final.

Players including Alex Iwobi, Ahmed Musa, Victor Osimhen, Ola Aina, Frank Onyeka, Calvin Bassey, Ademola Lookman, Kenneth Omeruo, Joe Aribo and Williams Troost-Ekong were at the welcome breakfast at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.

Members of the coaching crew are also at the breakfast.

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‘The Ivory Coast We Beat In The Group Stages Are Not The Same Ones We’ll Be Facing Today’

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2 months ago

February 11, 2024

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“This is the kind of match where if either teams play the way they have been playing since the tournament begin, they should forget it.

If Osimhen doesn’t direct one of his 20 headers into the net and Lookman see free space to smash ball into net but wants to use his short legs to do a Papilo round the keeper, wo, we should forget it.

They should take their chances as they come and fast enough or else wahala go dey.

The Ivory Coast we beat in the group stages are not the same ones we will be facing. Those ones have extra motivation to win having come this far against all odds.

They have home advantage psychology. With thousands and thousands of their fans gingering them.

And they are looking for revenge.

Like I said, if we don’t take our chances, anything our eye see, we should take it as the will of God.”

— Hymar Idibie 🖊️